When a Union Army officer surrendered and removed the American flag from Fort Sumter in Charleston Harbor the Civil War had begun. Less than thirty miles away and 150 years later the Confederate flag was flown again at the new home of Annie Caddell whose relatives fought for the South to the dismay of her neighbors in the historically black community of Summerville SC. After a petition to the city council and protest march failed to bring down the flag locals built a fence to block the view—so Caddell raised the flag on a higher pole.